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VIENNA – When Bill Bohren won his 300th football game as head coach, he was relieved that it was over.
“Now I can focus on the next game, not the numbers,” Mathews Mustangs head coach said on Saturday. “I was pretty confident we were going to win.”
Bohren, 87, started his coaching career in the late 1990s and has coached all over the valley – and now runs the Mustangs he only started coaching this fall.
The team finished 300th in a one-sided victory over Ashtabula St. John at the SPIRE Institute in Harpersfield Township, 36-0.
“When I was invited to train here I knew this district had a chance to be good,” he said. “There was a good basketball team and a great baseball team. They had a culture of victory here.
But the Mathews football team for the past four years had a record 6 and 24.
In some matches, the team did not have enough players to field a team.
“The key was to talk to the students at school,” Bohren said. “Sit down with them and try to generate interest in playing on the football team.”
The team now has 30 players. In other districts where he coached, he had teams with 38 seniors.
“We will be better next year,” he said. “We already have ninth graders determined to play. We will be better the following year.
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